Cloud Engineer Specialist (Local to VA)- W2

Job Title: Cloud Engineer Specialist
Location: On-site (McLean, VA)
Contract Duration: 12 Months with possible extension
Rounds: 2 Rounds
Duration: 60 mins|90 minutes
Interview Type: Virtual - Technical interview| On-site

Employment: W2

Job Description -

Assignment Type: Contract Only

Must Have Qualifications: 7 with preference of 10 years of software development with at least 5 years of Cloud domain expertise in AWS, Microservices, Cloud integration, and access management. Candidate must have hands on experience with rest API in Java or Python.

Interview Information:
A successful candidate will have the following characteristics:

Core Competencies - Primary Focus:
Cloud Deployment & Operations: History of contributing to cloud deployments in an engineering role
Service-Oriented Architecture: Deep understanding of SOA, microservices, and cloud-native application design
API Development & Security: Building and securing APIs for distributed cloud systems and identity context sharing. API integration with IAM systems.
Complex System Integration: Experience integrating multiple cloud services and third-party applications in enterprise environments
Software Development Lifecycle: Full SDLC experience with cloud platforms and information security applications
Deployment Experience: History of contributing to production deployments in an engineering role

Core Competencies - Supporting:
OAuth & Authentication: Building OAuth solutions for cloud service authentication and authorization
Federation & SSO: SAML configuration and Single Sign-On integration across cloud applications
IAM Architecture: Understanding of Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Management, and Credential Management in cloud contexts
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Security integration (Duo or Microsoft Authenticator) into authentication, authorization, and SSO processes
Complex Integration: Experience with complex Identity and Access Management integration and service delivery use cases
Identity Lifecycle Management: User provisioning/de-provisioning
Data Management: Strong knowledge in identity and access data correlation, normalization, and building cohesive identity and access data models for large enterprises

Requirements
Experience
10 years in software development focused on cloud technologies and distributed systems
5 years with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) in enterprise environments
3 years with full SDLC for cloud/hybrid applications: requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment automation
3 years with cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker, cloud databases, application servers, networking (VPC, load balancers, API gateways), Linux, and security/data flows
3 years designing and implementing cloud solutions with integrated security and IAM
Experience with IAM architecture: OAuth, SSO, SAML federation, and MFA integration in cloud applications

Technical Skills:
Amazon Web Services: EC2, EKS, ECS, KMS, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.
Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
Service Mesh: Istio
Package Management: Helm, pip
IaC: Terraform, Cloud Formation
DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git, Artifactory
Design Patterns: Formal design patterns and industry best-practices
Java Stack: Spring / Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate, Postgres, REST / RPC calls over HTTP
Scripting Languages: Groovy / Perl / Python / Ruby

Soft Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Self-motivated, driven, and creative individual

Differentiators
WebAuthn: Experience is a nice to have
Robot / Sauce Labs
Security: PKI, SSL / TLS, Fuzzing, etc.
Scaling CI / CD systems and microservices
Code coverage analysis / static analysis tools
Agile Methodologies: Scrum and other agile programming processes
Overseeing/managing production web application deployment
Frontend Technologies: JavaScript / TypeScript / Angular
Web Technologies: HTML5 / Bootstrap
.NET Languages: C#, VB .NET